The phenomenology of dance
By: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone ; foreword by Merce Cunningham
Contributors: Cunningham, Merce, author of foreword
Edition: Fiftieth anniversary edition.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781439912614; 9781439912621
Subjects: Dance; Phenomenology; Philosophy
Description: "When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: "When we look at a dance, what do we see?" Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, are still provocative and acutely significant today. Sheets-Johnstone considers dance as an aesthetic mode of expression, and integrates theories of dance into philosophical discussions of the nature of movement. Back in print after nearly 20 years, The Phenomenology of Dance provides an informed approach to teaching dance and to dance education, appreciation, criticism, and choreography. In addition to the foreword by Merce Cunningham from the original edition, and the preface from the second edition, this fiftieth anniversary edition includes an in-depth introduction that critically and constructively addresses present-day scholarship on movement and dance"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index.